Question 1

Has Stephen Kee received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,991 in general payments to Stephen Kee across 65 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Stephen Kee did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Stephen Kee come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
Cook Incorporated	2	$8,800
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	15	$7,018
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	8	$6,975
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	4	$1,186
Cook Medical LLC	12	$451
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$345
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$291
Dova Pharmaceuticals	1	$145
Abbott	2	$129
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.	1	$112
Terumo Medical Corporation	3	$103
Philips North America LLC	1	$100
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$83
Boston Scientific	2	$70
Biocompatibles, Inc.	1	$64
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$58
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$28
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$18
Covidien LP	1	$16

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